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MLK deplored violence like Raleigh’s in ‘68. Leaders now can learn from that

  • Jan 20, 2025
  • 1 min read

By Jason Miller

Rev. Douglas Moore, pastor of the Asbury Temple Methodist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph Abernathy and NCCU student Lacy Streeter walk along West Main Street on their way to the Woolworth Lunch Counter in this file photo from Feb. 16, 1960.
Rev. Douglas Moore, pastor of the Asbury Temple Methodist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph Abernathy and NCCU student Lacy Streeter walk along West Main Street on their way to the Woolworth Lunch Counter in this file photo from Feb. 16, 1960.

With the unique 2025 overlap of Martin Luther King Day and the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Americans are confronted with one irresolvable difference: One group of observers consists largely of those who will acknowledge inconvenient truths. The other willingly rewrites the past. The same day will definitively split Americans into two groups: those who practice either remembrance or revision.


The day presents North Carolinians with a chance to again reflect on the challenge of acknowledging our own violent past.


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